SuZhou in pictures

This city, an hour west of Shanghai, is considered The Venice of the East. Pictures can describe it better than I can:

You know me...children always catch my eye.

Yes, that is my fat finger blocking a nice picture.

At the peacock farm

The story of this crazy-looking fish:

I'm convinced they over charged us for this dish, which was tasty, but certainly not worth over $30?!?! That day I learned how important it is to use my Chinese and keep from getting ripped off :(